The Syrian government decided to regulate the distribution of fuel this month, requiring citizens to ration their petrol quota to 20 from 40 litres for taxis and private cars, at a rate of 20 litres every five days for private cars and 20 litres (...)
Several Russian envoys met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and discussed a constitutional committee, trade, as well as the ways to improve Syria's relations with neighbouring Arab countries, Russia's Foreign Ministry said.
Formation of a (...)
Syrians in government-controlled areas who have survived eight years of war now face a new scourge: widespread fuel shortages that have brought life to a halt in major cities.
Cars line up by the hundreds outside petrol stations, and long lines of (...)
There is a growing view that after seven years of multi-faceted wars, the Eastern Mediterranean is returning to stability.
Four factors lend credibility to this view, but their impact will be merely in the short-term. What will really shape the (...)
Syrian government forces and insurgents exchanged a barrage of rockets on Sunday in the country's northwest that killed at least 13 people and hit a government-run hospital, activists and government media reported.
The violence strained a fragile (...)
There are now some 13 million Syrian refugees inside and outside the country or 60 per cent of the population, according to the US Pew Research Centre, which is the largest for any country in recent decades.
Half of the refugees have been displaced (...)
Israel confirmed Thursday it carried out an airstrike the night before in northern Syria while a war monitoring group said the attack killed an Iranian and six Iraqi fighters allied with President Bashar Assad's government forces.
The Britain-based (...)
The Action Group for the Palestinians of Syria (AGPS), a human-rights group monitoring the Palestinian refugees in Syria, said this week that 728 Palestinians had been killed while fighting alongside regime forces in Syria, 276 of them in the ranks (...)
US President Donald Trump tweeted last week that “it is time for the US to recognise Israel's sovereignty over the Golan” in a reference to Israel's occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights.
The response was critical in Arab circles and also around (...)
More than 20,000 Syrians live under Israeli occupation in the Golan Heights in four neighbouring villages in the highlands of Mount Hermon, among them Majdal Shams, Masaade, Buqaata and Ain Qiniyye.
The residents are Druze, primarily farmers, who (...)
The Golan Heights, a rocky highland located in south-western Syria, wedged between Israel, Syria, and Jordan. Mount Hermon, highest elevation in Israeli-controlled territory, offers vast view all the way to Damascus in the east, while the Golan's (...)
Damascus condemned on Friday U.S. President Donald Trump's statement that it was time to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, vowing Syria would recover the area using "all available means".
Syria's allies Russia and Iran also (...)
The Syrian government vowed to take back the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights as its allies and enemies alike condemned U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday for moving to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the territory seized in war.
Trump's (...)
From Syria to the Arab League to Russia to Turkey and beyond, President Donald Trump's abrupt declaration that Washington will recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights drew strong condemnation on Friday.
The Syrian (...)
More than 20,000 Syrians live under Israeli occupation in the Golan Heights in four neighbouring villages in the highlands of Mount Hermon, among them Majdal Shams, Masaade, Buqaata and Ain Qiniyye. The residents are Druze, primarily farmers, who (...)
US President Donald Trump tweeted last week that “it is time for the US to recognise Israel's sovereignty over the Golan” in a reference to Israel's occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights.
The response was critical in Arab circles and also around (...)
There is a growing view that after seven years of multi-faceted wars, the Eastern Mediterranean is returning to stability. Four factors lend credibility to this view, but their impact will be merely in the short-term. What will really shape the (...)
Damascus hosted a tripartite meeting between key Syrian, Iranian and Iraqi military leaders 18 March. Attended by Iranian Defence Minister Amir Hatami, Syrian counterpart Ali Abdullah Ayoub and Iraqi Chief of Staffs Lieutenant General Othman (...)
Iraq's armed forces chief of staff on Monday expressed hope that the country's border crossing with Syria would be opened in the coming days after meeting his Syrian and Iranian counterparts in Damascus.
"God willing the coming days will witness the (...)
Arab countries are among the world's largest arms importers. According to recent updates to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's (SIPRI) database, half of the world's top 10 arms importers are Arab states — Saudi Arabia, Egypt, (...)
The Syrian military has mounted air strikes against Islamic State militants and clashed with the jihadists in central Syria, the pro-Damascus al-Watan newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The flare-up in the area of al-Sukhna, between Palymra and Deir (...)
Russian military police could be deployed in a proposed “safe zone” along Syria's northern border with Turkey, Russian news agencies cited foreign minister Sergei Lavrov as saying to Chinese and Vietnamese media on Sunday.
The suggestion is unlikely (...)
“Only Turkey should be present in the safe zone” that Ankara wants to establish in northern Syria, said its Defence Minister Hulusi Akar last Friday while in Germany for the Munich Security Conference.
He insisted that the area had to be cleared of (...)
is unfortunately fairly common in today's political environment, as political interests and the media often decide not only people's views but also entire countries' fate.
Manufacturing consent means causing the naïve, the vulnerable or the (...)
A senior adviser to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday flatly rejected the idea of giving Syrian Kurds a measure of autonomy, saying such a move would open the door to the partition of the country.
The Kurdish-led authority that runs much (...)
